All compounded by someone with OCD. 
Weird- and frustrating after ten years to have to deal with colors issues of a new and more technologically television. Even when it is half the price of the one I replaced. Current televisions always come with so many settings determined by the manufacturer. Yet I've always found them somewhere between incorrect and repulsive! And yet I know my OCD plays a part in it all.
It's take three days of tinkering and experimenting with so many combinations of settings all to find my subjective vision of what an optimal picture looks like. Most often coming down to the setting that my new tv does not have compared to the old one. That which can enhance shades of flesh tones. Making them incrementally darker than the manufacturer's default settings. Leaving me to struggle to get faces a bit darker and redder compared to my previous television.
And of course with three sources (Cable tv, Roku and DVD) they all have slightly different considerations relative to a number of settings. Allowing me at least to experiment with one or the other in pursuit of what I am beginning to think is a lost cause. Luckily of course with so many different settings that can drastically impact the picture, I have begun writing down the ones I liked the best. But they still never seemed to be as good as what I used to have.
Oddly enough, only a half hour ago I turned on my tv that defaults to cable tv. Where I turned on a news broadcast which at the time had four diverse women on, who all have various shades of dark and light colors. It made me step back and gain more perspective of people with truly pale faces versus those with darker faces. Perhaps most of all, to notice that in predominantly news broadcasts, where in a studio they employ the most optimal lighting and colors. Yet in the 21st century, it's now routine to split the screen to depict both a studio news person, and their remotely viewed guest. With so many of those remotely viewed guests appearing ghastly in comparison. But then it's not rocket science to consider that these days the studios are depending on remote guests relying on their personal technology, which may at times be woefully inadequate. Particularly in employing too much lighting, which inherently makes a person with a pale complexion look even paler. And compensating by over-saturating color doesn't help.
My point? It's taken me three days not only to attempt to "optimize" my overall picture based on three sources, but also to accept the obvious. That I can't "globally" control such a thing visually whether I like it or not. That part of the ability to optimize my picture also involves depicting others with less-than-optimal lighting which so badly makes people look ill. All exacerbated by a lack of this flesh tone control I had on my previous television. Leaving broadcast news and commercials as a hit-or-miss proposition, and movies and television shows looking pretty good most of the times. Though indoor lighting seems sometimes inadequate, but that could be by design as well. leaving most outdoor shots to depict lighting and color relatively well.
However this rant isn't about a struggle with technology so much as my struggle with OCD. Though in either case at least I am slowly beginning to understand that I have little control in attempting to optimize the overall color of my new tv. And most of all that clearly there's nothing technically wrong with it. That between the variety of dynamic light sources and human complexions, I can control neither. And that I can spend another three days of tweaking only to find that I cannot get what I thought I once had. Meanwhile the sharpness of this new set at 1080p is excellent.
Just a little free insight into the mind of someone with OCD. Which more often than not is just one big PITA.
Weird- and frustrating after ten years to have to deal with colors issues of a new and more technologically television. Even when it is half the price of the one I replaced. Current televisions always come with so many settings determined by the manufacturer. Yet I've always found them somewhere between incorrect and repulsive! And yet I know my OCD plays a part in it all.
It's take three days of tinkering and experimenting with so many combinations of settings all to find my subjective vision of what an optimal picture looks like. Most often coming down to the setting that my new tv does not have compared to the old one. That which can enhance shades of flesh tones. Making them incrementally darker than the manufacturer's default settings. Leaving me to struggle to get faces a bit darker and redder compared to my previous television.
And of course with three sources (Cable tv, Roku and DVD) they all have slightly different considerations relative to a number of settings. Allowing me at least to experiment with one or the other in pursuit of what I am beginning to think is a lost cause. Luckily of course with so many different settings that can drastically impact the picture, I have begun writing down the ones I liked the best. But they still never seemed to be as good as what I used to have.
Oddly enough, only a half hour ago I turned on my tv that defaults to cable tv. Where I turned on a news broadcast which at the time had four diverse women on, who all have various shades of dark and light colors. It made me step back and gain more perspective of people with truly pale faces versus those with darker faces. Perhaps most of all, to notice that in predominantly news broadcasts, where in a studio they employ the most optimal lighting and colors. Yet in the 21st century, it's now routine to split the screen to depict both a studio news person, and their remotely viewed guest. With so many of those remotely viewed guests appearing ghastly in comparison. But then it's not rocket science to consider that these days the studios are depending on remote guests relying on their personal technology, which may at times be woefully inadequate. Particularly in employing too much lighting, which inherently makes a person with a pale complexion look even paler. And compensating by over-saturating color doesn't help.
My point? It's taken me three days not only to attempt to "optimize" my overall picture based on three sources, but also to accept the obvious. That I can't "globally" control such a thing visually whether I like it or not. That part of the ability to optimize my picture also involves depicting others with less-than-optimal lighting which so badly makes people look ill. All exacerbated by a lack of this flesh tone control I had on my previous television. Leaving broadcast news and commercials as a hit-or-miss proposition, and movies and television shows looking pretty good most of the times. Though indoor lighting seems sometimes inadequate, but that could be by design as well. leaving most outdoor shots to depict lighting and color relatively well.
However this rant isn't about a struggle with technology so much as my struggle with OCD. Though in either case at least I am slowly beginning to understand that I have little control in attempting to optimize the overall color of my new tv. And most of all that clearly there's nothing technically wrong with it. That between the variety of dynamic light sources and human complexions, I can control neither. And that I can spend another three days of tweaking only to find that I cannot get what I thought I once had. Meanwhile the sharpness of this new set at 1080p is excellent.
Just a little free insight into the mind of someone with OCD. Which more often than not is just one big PITA.
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